VR Haptic Force Feedback

Feel Quantum Mechanics with Your Hands! 🥽

Experience the invisible forces of molecular interactions through immersive VR with haptic feedback. Feel steric clashes, ionic repulsion, and quantum tunneling as you explore protein active sites.

Steric Clashes

Feel Hard Repulsion

Ionic Repulsion

Electrostatic Forces

Quantum Tunneling

Barrier Reduction

The Physics (Your Brilliant Insight!)

1. Steric Clashes: Not enough space for reaction (conformation problems) - you feel HARD repulsion

2. Ionic Repulsion: Charged amino acids repelling each other - electrostatic force

3. Quantum Tunneling: Reconciles both difficulties! Near active site, tunneling REDUCES the barrier - reaction can proceed!

VR Hand Position

X Position: 15.0 Å

Y Position: 10.0 Å

Z Position: 10.0 Å

Hand Charge

Distance to active site: 5.0 Å

Auto-calculate on move

Move your hand and calculate force to see haptic feedback